Week 9 Term 3 2009

Citizenship is everyone’s business Dear Parents, Thanks to those parent who have filled out the consent forms for camp and returned them to school already. The sooner we have all these returned and the money paid the sooner we can finalise other planning. Please don’t hesitate to contact me if you have questions and/or concerns. Please remember to include any information that could impact on your child’s enjoyment of the camp (or the enjoyment of those around him or her!) Please check whether your child needs a new homework book, Maths book or other equipment, This term ALL homework should be done in the one homework book to be returned to school each Friday. Sue

2. BASIC FACTS and TIMES TABLES Learn 2 basic facts and x tables you got wrong every night so your score improves. Note: Times Tables testing will be THURSDAY again this week.

3. Read every night for at least 10 minutes. 4. SPELLING 1. Spelling. Learn your spelling for our spelling test on Friday. 2. Each night choose 2 or 3 of your spelling words and write an interesting sentence for each word in YOUR HOMEWORK BOOK. Date each days work. By Friday you should have a minimum of 6 good sentences with Capital letters, full stops and careful spelling.

Term 3 Week 9

Room 3 Homework

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Quality homework This term I am looking for Quality homework. Quality homework is work that: • is written neatly in your homework book • each section is ruled off (with a ruler) and has a neat heading • Is written in HB pencil and might have coloured pencil for illustrations and/or headings. NO FELT PENS

1. Maths 1. Choose the best measurement unit to measure: • The length of a sandpit • The weight of a bag on apples • How much a glass holds • The thickness of a pencil • The length of a recorder 2. Draw 3 tidy boxes in your book. Label each one with Length, Mass or Capacity. Sort these units into the correct boxes.

Kg cm ml tons, mg, m mm,

km g,

l mm